Season One on Marvel Animation‘s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is now available to stream on Disney+, and the show’s soundtrack of amazing music from composers Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson is available to buy as well.
Cherry the Geek TV sat down with Birenberg and Robinson to talk about creating the music for such a beloved superhero. Birenberg said there was a lot of pressure to write new music for Spider-Man and they didn’t want to let anyone down. “We wanted to sound like ourselves in approaching the show and not try to sound like anything anyone had done before,” he said. “Where we excel creatively is looking at a show or movie and prescribing a concept to it and going really hard in that direction. For this show, the animation was really inspiring, and we got a lot of influence from anime which we’re both fans of. We wanted to bring that energy and melodic scoring to this. What we were interested in is low-fi hip hop which is super common in youth culture today.”
“I think what everyone is really happy about with this show is that the stakes don’t feel as high as like an Avengers movie would have and that’s how people connect with the characters in the comics,” added Robinson. “You’re just with the characters every day. There’s something nice about having the score play those slice of life moments. I imagine Peter Parker listening to lo-fi and watching anime. That’s what we wanted to channel.”
Birenberg and Robinson also composed the music for Cobra Kai, which just dropped the series finale in February. They discussed their work on the six seasons of that show with us as well.
You can watch the full interview with Birenberg and Robinson by clicking on the link below:
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